Joop de Wit

Urban Poverty, Local Governance and Everyday Politics in Mumbai (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the informal (political) patronage relations between the urban poor and service delivery organisations in Mumbai, India. It examines the conditions of people in the slums and traces the extent to which they are subject to social and political exclusion. Delving into the roles of the slum-based mediators and municipal councillors, it brings out the problems in the functioning of democracy at the ground level, as election candidates target vote banks with freebies and private-sector funding to manage their campaigns. Starting from social justice concerns, this book combines theory and insights from disciplines as diverse as political science, anthropology and policy studies. It provides a comprehensive, multi-level overview of the various actors within local municipal governance and democracy as also consequences for citizenship, urban poverty, gender relations, public services, and neoliberal politics.

Lucid and rich in ethnographic data, this book will be useful to scholars, researchers and students of social anthropology, urban studies, urban sociology, political science, public policy and governance, as well as practitioners and policymakers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315462158
• Artikelnr.: 46757520

Autorenporträt

Joop de Wit is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Development Management, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS), The Hague, The Netherlands. An anthropologist, his research interests are political science, governance, policy issues, urban poverty and decentralization. He has published the books Poverty, Policy and Politics in Madras Slums: Dynamics of Survival, Gender and Leadership (1996) and New Forms of Urban Governance in India: Shifts, Models, Networks and Contestations (co-edited with I.S.A. Baud, 2008) as well as numerous articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 Locating Mumbai's poor in urban governance, politics and informality
2 Mumbai megacity: city, people and governance changes
3 Included and excluded: Mumbai's poor and slum dynamics
4 Political entrepreneurs: the Mumbai corporators in their political and
financial context
5 Politics or poli-tricks? Local democracy and slumvoting in the 2012
Mumbai municipal elections
Conclusions: 'the poor pray for miracles, the rich think they have a right
to them'
Glossary
Bibliography
Index